Month: March 2018

Everyone has their own lab environment or playground. Everyone?! Well, the cool kids do.

I’ll provide some insight into what’s in my lab environment Continue reading “What’s in your lab environment?”

*Note: I did not verify that statement!

There are many articles about optimizing the ConfigMgr database. There are separate articles about backing it up. Other articles about other things to backup. So, let’s put them all together and create a maintenance plan that does it all.

The goal is to clean WSUS, run integrity checks on the databases, optimize indexes on the databases, copy the CD.Latest folder, and backup the databases.

  Continue reading “The very best ConfigMgr database maintenance plan in the entire world*”

Intro

 

How important is it to you and your company to have a highly available ConfigMgr solution? The answer to that is: it depends. It certainly does. I’ll leave that decisions to you.

So, what do we need to get ConfigMgr and SQL AlwaysOn to work? Continue reading “ConfigMgr and SQL AlwaysOn”

So, you have a PKI or access to certificates and want to encrypt SQL connections. Easy! Continue reading “SQL Server – Fun with certificates”